"While we were being bombed in Dresden sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were a duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, 'I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.' Nobody laughed, but we were still all glad he said it. At least we were still alive! He proved it." Chapter 1, p. 5

"Do you realize that all great literature - Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, The Bible, and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' - are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? (Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?)" Chapter 2, p. 9

"'Socialism' is no more an evil word than 'Christianity.'...